On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:15 AM Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
... Using the Wikipedia list of countries by population[1], the ten
most populous countries that do not observe daylight saving time are
China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia,
Japan, and Ethiopia, in that order.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population

Kind of a misleading statistic, though, since Indonesia straddles the equator and much of Brazil, Nigeria, and Ethiopia are within 15 degrees latitude, making DST unnecessary for them.
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Alan Mintz <Alan.Mintz@gMail.com>